I teach the CCNA syllabus and had two 2501 routers suddenly stop booting this afternoon. We were only configuring static routes at the time so I cant see that the student has done anything - rather than loading the IOS the two routers instead stop at a > prompt. (ROM mode I believe?) I can make them boot from TFTP and have tried erasing the flash and restoring the IOS image file from the TFTP server. This completes with no errors being reported. On rebooting however the router again boots purely to > mode.
I have never seen this before and have been teaching the CCNA for about 5 years now.
I am suspecting that the flash card's in both routers are faulty but a little nagging voice in my head is saying - so why did the copy process from tftp to the flash not fail?
Anyone got any ideas?
As always any help is greatly appreciated.
I have never seen this before and have been teaching the CCNA for about 5 years now.
I am suspecting that the flash card's in both routers are faulty but a little nagging voice in my head is saying - so why did the copy process from tftp to the flash not fail?
Anyone got any ideas?
As always any help is greatly appreciated.